<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton in "Twister."Warner Bros.</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>"Twister," starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, topped the box office in 1996.</li><li>The movie proved the allure of CGI-fueled disaster movies, featuring iconic scenes like a flying cow.</li></ul><p>When "Twister" came out in 1996, audiences couldn't get enough of Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as storm-chasers trying to run from destructive tornadoes.</p><p>The movie topped the domestic box office in its first two weekends in theaters, proving audiences would flock to big-spectacle disaster movies that were fueled by computer-generated action (complete with <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkpAPCe2OTs">a flying cow</a>).</p><p>Close to 30 years after its release, there's now a legacy sequel with "Twisters," out July 19, starring Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Anthony Ramos.</p><p>In celebration of audiences returning to storm hunting, here's a look back at the star-studded premieres the original "Twister" had in 1996.</p>